Article: In the Summer House. (Lincoln Center, New York, New York)

"There's no point in writing a play for your five hundred goony friends," Jane Bowles said in Vogue (May 1, 1954), shortly after her play In the Summer House opened and closed on Broadway. "You have to reach more people." Forty years after that event, Lincoln Center has revived the play, under the direction of Joanne Akalaitis, perhaps because the producers suspect that there is more Bowles-style gooniness around in the 1990s than there was in the 1950s. Without ever knowing the woman, I was one of her goony friends from the beginning. The play both baffled and delighted me when I first saw it. It had conventional psychological tensions buried beneath its eccentric ...

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